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Can you hear me now? The operator-centric mobile model is over Last week, T-Mobile Germany made some waves by banning Skype for the iPhone. Some might read this as a long overdue reassertion of operator power, but I disagree. A few months ago, I learned from a reliable source that a major operator was deliberately not shipping a very popular mobile phone model that they knew their customers wanted because the phone didn’t give them enough control over what the customer does. The phone was too open. This is exactly what Google was talking about back in 2007 when it insisted on openness as a condition to bidding in the FCC’s spectrum auction. Ten years ago, when I covered mobile operators on Wall Street, they used to cite their vast capital expenditure on building on their cellular networks as their core differentiator. This was the reality behind Verizon’s amusing “can you hear me now?” campaign.

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FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has just raised $21.7 million from Google, Skype, and Sequoia Capital.

FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has just raised $21.7 million from Google, Skype, and Sequoia Capital.

Skype和Gtalk是今年风头最劲的两个IM软件。如果它们之间能互相通讯，便可以为用户提供更丰富的体验。现在Festoon就为我们实现了这样的功能。

> Today we released Jingle, a set of XMPP extensions for negotiating peer-to-peer multimedia sessions between Jabber clients. The first session type is Jingle Audio, which will enable voice over IP (VoIP) on the Jabber network.

It seems that everywhere I turn on the web these days, people are excited about Google Talk and/or Skype. "Real voice conversations over the Internet for free," people say.

Que faire des quelques milliards que vient d'avoir google... acheter skype ?

As of last night, Google Talk is the newest player in this growing industry and a formidable competitor to the currently dominant Skype service.